Temporary floor for hoist

[Bus Driver]

Planning a project that will require a hoist-- some call it a "cherry picker" but I have no idea why. This will be on a dirt/gravel surface. Anyone ever used a sheet of plywood as a floor for the hoist? It will need to be moved a couple of feet with a load of 600-700 pounds suspended on the hoist. Have you actually done this? Did it work well?

Yes, some call it an engine hoist.

[Don McCombs]

Are we talking about an engine hoist?

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

It will work but with that much load you may have problems with the wheels sinking into it some, but should not be a big problem. Before I got my loader I had a small trailer I used to chain my hoist down on and move stuff around with it. I used one chain around the trailer and hoist, and a second one from the top handle back to the tongue and used it with the front legs folded so I could reach farther than the trailer.

[Eugene]

Tried it once with a thick sheet of plywood. Worked ok until one of the wheels on the engine hoist/cherry picker dropped off the edge of the plywood. Basically the plywood worked better than nothing.